[azipa] Perl/CGI help<-- found it!

[Lucas Vogel]

You know...

With Zope there is a Poll product, one of many different products they have.
All you do is set up the questions and answers, and it does everything. 

I never did make it to the Zope presentation, though I have talked with Jiva
at least a little bit; those who weren't sold on Zope then should really
consider it when it comes to website application design; IMHO zope can't be
beat.

My $.02,

Lucas Vogel

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cantrell [mailto:yomahz@devnull.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 8:12 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: [azipa] Perl/CGI help<-- found it!


Doh... I found your attachment... I restarted mail client and there it
was (I'll blame it on windows... yeah... that's it.).


The problem is this:

#total votes
$total== $opt_a + $opt_b + $opt_c;

You're using the == operator which compares the values. I think you want
to use = to assign the value.

Regards,
Mike Cantrell

Mike Cantrell wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, I didn't get your attachment so I can't review your code.
> CGI debugging can really suck sometimes... What I usually do is create a
> debug log and throw print statements in everywhere so I can make sure
> the variables contain what I think they do. I also use the stict modual
> which helps prevent spelling mistakes with variables.
> 
> try this at the beginning of your code:
> ---cut here--
> use CGI::Carp;
> 
> BEGIN {
>     use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
>     open(LOG, '/tmp/web.log')  #or 'c:\temp\web.txt' in your case
>         or die "Unable to append to mycgi-log: $!\n";
>     carpout(*LOG);
> }
> 
> print STDERR "testing debug log\n";
> --end cut--
> 
> You can use the strict module which makes you declare your variables
> before you can use them... it helps alot with spelling errors and makes
> your programs a little faster...
> 
> put this at the beggining of your code:
> 
> --cut here--
> use strict;
> 
> my $variable;   #declare variables with my before you use them.
> my $string = "value";   #you can assign values while declaring
> 
> --end cut--
> 
> Good Luck... if you want to send me the code, I'd be happy to look at
> it.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Cantrell
> 
> Laurie Ann Silberman wrote:
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > LA
> 
> >    ----- Original Message -----
> >    From: Laurie Ann Silberman
> >    To: azipa@listbot.com
> >    Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 8:36 AM
> >    Subject: [azipa] Perl/CGI help
> >
> >    AZIPA Discussion List - http://www.azipa.org
> >
> >    I am currently teaching myself Perl/CGI (on Win32 systems) for my new
> >    position. My first assignment is to create a poll using a flat ASCII
data
> >    file.
> >
> >    Testing confirms that:
> >    1. The results page will build
> >    2. The data file is loading
> >    3. The input from the poll form is loading.
> >
> >    But when I try to run the whole thing together --- nothing. No error
> >    messages, just nothing. A team member with more Perl experience
scanned
> > my
> >    code and saw no reason why it should not run.
> >
> >    The files are attached. I appreciate any help you code maniacs can
give.
> >
> >    Laurie Ann
> >
> 
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